Buckeye Football Notebook: 'This is as strong a group of leaders as we’ve had'


One of the concerns of hiring a former head coach to be an assistant coach is how well they will take the step down in responsibility or how easily they will take direction, or any number of things that they haven’t been accustomed to doing for a while. For the second year in a row, Urban Meyer brought a former head coach onto his staff when he hired Kevin Wilson. To this point, there have been no issues with Wilson assimilating to his new responsibilities. “He’s great,” Meyer said. “I was worried about that. I think the first one I hired was Dan McCarney at Florida. He was a very successful head coach and came in and there was no duty that was…he just did everything. Joker Phillips came here last year, was an SEC head coach. He came in and did a lot of scout work for us and…

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